BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 12 — Limit of solitary confinement.
Replaces IPC Section 74.
In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods; and when the imprisonment awarded shall exceed three months, the solitary confinement shall not exceed seven days in any one month of the whole imprisonment awarded, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods.
Nearby sections
- 9 Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences.
- 10 Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which.
- 11 Solitary confinement.
- 13 Enhanced punishment for certain offences after previous conviction.
- 14 Act done by a person bound, or by mistake of fact believing himself bound, by law.
- 15 Act of Judge when acting judicially.
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